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Burley Bee kids bike trailer review
jefftk
Aug 2, 2020, 5:20 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Engineering Experience Through Score
ZorbaTHut
Aug 2, 2020, 12:09 PM
25
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
When Gears Go Wrong
Matt Goldenberg
Aug 2, 2020, 6:21 AM
28
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Tearing down the Chesterton’s Fence principle
DirectedEvolution
Aug 2, 2020, 4:56 AM
35
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dissolving the “Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis Dead?” Question
Alexei
Aug 2, 2020, 4:46 AM
37
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would AGIs parent young AGIs?
Vishrut Arya
Aug 2, 2020, 12:57 AM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Principles Behind Bottlenecks
curi
Aug 1, 2020, 10:48 PM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Agentic Language Model Memes
FactorialCode
Aug 1, 2020, 6:03 PM
16
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are you looking for in a Less Wrong post?
adamShimi
Aug 1, 2020, 6:00 PM
27
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Food Spending During Covid
jefftk
Aug 1, 2020, 5:10 PM
10
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Forecasting Newsletter: July 2020.
NunoSempere
Aug 1, 2020, 5:08 PM
21
points
4
comments
22
min read
LW
link
Inner Alignment: Explain like I’m 12 Edition
Rafael Harth
Aug 1, 2020, 3:24 PM
184
points
47
comments
13
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Online LessWrong Community Weekend, September 11th-13th
Linda Linsefors
Aug 1, 2020, 2:55 PM
48
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On Procrastination—The art of shaping your future actions
Neel Nanda
Aug 1, 2020, 10:22 AM
10
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Generalized Efficient Markets in Political Power
johnswentworth
Aug 1, 2020, 4:49 AM
45
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Era Of Unlimited Everything: Unlimited Materials & Unlimited Money
jdcampolargo
Aug 1, 2020, 3:01 AM
4
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Power as Easily Exploitable Opportunities
TurnTrout
Aug 1, 2020, 2:14 AM
32
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jul 31, 2020, 5:54 PM
46
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Enforcing Type Distinction
lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)
Jul 31, 2020, 11:39 AM
26
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
“Go west, young man!”—Preferences in (imperfect) maps
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 31, 2020, 7:50 AM
25
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can you gain weirdness points?
Nicholas / Heather Kross
Jul 31, 2020, 3:41 AM
20
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Free Educational and Research Resources
Rachel Shu
Jul 31, 2020, 12:24 AM
55
points
25
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jimrandomh, johnswenthworth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Jul 30, 2020, 11:55 PM
15
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers
adamShimi
Jul 30, 2020, 10:05 PM
50
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What if memes are common in highly capable minds?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jul 30, 2020, 8:45 PM
40
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
PSA: Tagging is Awesome
abramdemski
Jul 30, 2020, 5:52 PM
76
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole
Zvi
Jul 30, 2020, 3:50 PM
39
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Is the work on AI alignment relevant to GPT?
Richard_Kennaway
Jul 30, 2020, 12:23 PM
24
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would a halfway copied brain emulation be at risk of having different values/identity?
Ghatanathoah
Jul 30, 2020, 5:43 AM
9
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Reading Group (Online)
NoSignalNoNoise
Jul 30, 2020, 2:14 AM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Attention is your scarcest resource
benkuhn
Jul 30, 2020, 1:00 AM
98
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.benkuhn.net)
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
Jul 29, 2020, 10:49 PM
34
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What Failure Looks Like: Distilling the Discussion
Ben Pace
Jul 29, 2020, 9:49 PM
82
points
14
comments
7
min read
LW
link
New Paper on Herd Immunity Thresholds
Zvi
Jul 29, 2020, 8:50 PM
41
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
What a 20-year-lead in military tech might look like
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jul 29, 2020, 8:10 PM
78
points
59
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Engaging Seriously with Short Timelines
sapphire
Jul 29, 2020, 7:21 PM
43
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[AN #110]: Learning features from human feedback to enable reward learning
Rohin Shah
Jul 29, 2020, 5:20 PM
13
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
The “best predictor is malicious optimiser” problem
Donald Hobson
Jul 29, 2020, 11:49 AM
14
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field
Tim Liptrot
Jul 29, 2020, 1:54 AM
16
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Parameters of Privacy
Raemon
Jul 29, 2020, 1:18 AM
31
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Predictions for GPT-N
hippke
Jul 29, 2020, 1:16 AM
36
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tagging Open Call / Discussion Thread
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:58 PM
65
points
118
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Wiki-Tag FAQ
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
39
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Tags Discussion/Talk Thread
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
30
points
81
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What happens to variance as neural network training is scaled? What does it imply about “lottery tickets”?
abramdemski
28 Jul 2020 20:22 UTC
25
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How will internet forums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?
ChristianKl
28 Jul 2020 20:12 UTC
14
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
To what extent are the scaling properties of Transformer networks exceptional?
abramdemski
28 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC
30
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Conceited Folly of Certainty
Noah Blaff
28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
7
points
3
comments
20
min read
LW
link
The Curse of Cursory Idealism
Noah Blaff
28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
9
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the lottery ticket hypothesis suggest the scaling hypothesis?
Daniel Kokotajlo
28 Jul 2020 19:52 UTC
14
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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